Program Description
Event Details
Join us at Howe Arena for the latest and greatest celebration of Making and all things STEAM, in combination with our friends from the Recycle Smart Earth Day event! Get ready for a special green edition of the event, including as much upcycling, repurposing, and recycling as possible. It's all FREE!
Pick up a passport sheet as you enter and be sure to enter into our hourly drawings after you complete 5 squares. We are giving away a $50 gift card to Oryana as well as a STEM Kit at the top of each hour (11, 12, 1 and 2).
We're also encouraging as many families to get to the Civic Center in an environmentally friendly way- whether it be by foot, by bike, by bus or carpool. Post your family name on our Earth Day Tree in recognition.
We would also like to thank our event sponsor, Oryana Community Co-op, for their donation of gift cards for our hourly prizes, as well as food and beverages for our exhibitors.
Food
Food is available at MakerFest. The concession stand inside the Civic Center, Hangry's, will also be open during our event.
Travel tips
Construction traffic is real in Traverse City. For updated routes, please visit Traverse City's Grandview Parkway Project Page.
Current list of exhibitors - list and map subject to change:
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Littles Area (2 - 6)
- Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
- The Great Lakes Children's Museum
- Great Start Collaborative / 5toONE
- TADL Youth Services
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General Area (7 - 100+)
- 1711 Raptor Robotics (TC Central)
- Autmow
- Bay Area Recycling for Charities
- The Beat Lab
- Brothers Tree Service and Garden Center
- Carter's Compost
- Cherryland Ghostbusters
- Challenge Island Northwest Michigan
- Cherryland Amateur Radio Club
- Cherryland Ghostbusters
- The Dennos Museum
- East Bay Branch Library (TADL)
- Girl Scouts of Michigan Shore to Shore
- Goodwill NMI Food Rescue
- Grand Traverse Audobon Club
- Grand Traverse Conservation District
- Grand Traverse County Health Department
- Grand Traverse Historical Weapons Guild
- Grand Traverse Citizens Climate Lobby
- Great Lakes Garrison
- GT Butterfly House & Bug Zoo
- Inland Seas Education Association
- Interlochen Arts Academy
- Master Gardener Association of Northwest Michigan
- Michigan Departmento of Natural Resources (Forest Resources Division)
- Michigan Legacy Art Park
- Michigan State University Extension - Leelanau County
- MiSTEM Network
- North Country Trail
- Oryana Community Co-op
- Pebble Pups (Grand Traverse Rock Hounds)
- Quarkmine
- Ropemaker Joe Simon
- SEEDS Ecology and Education Centers
- Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
- TADL - 3D Printing
- TADL - Sight & Sound
- TADL - Teen Services
- TADL - Youth Services (materials donated by Bay Area Recycling for Charities)
- Traverse City Fire Department
- Traverse City Light & Power
- United States Forest Service
- USS Septarian crew
- VegMichigan
-
Trucks (outside the north end of the Arena)
- Bear Force One (Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore)
- TADL Bookmobile
- TC Light and Power
- (tent.) Ghostbusters Ectomobile